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Is Your Acquiring Platform Truly Omnichannel?

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Today’s consumers often use multiple channels to initiate, modify, and complete retail transactions, expecting all previous interactions to be considered at each subsequent step. In Vietnam, SmartPay started with C2B payments as transfers within its mobile wallet ecosystem, and later introduced QR code payments for both old and new merchants.

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Payments’ Role In The Fourth Industrial Revolution

PYMNTS

To get a sense of where faster payments are headed, look to the consumer. Some of them have been mandated by governments, readying for anticipated demand. The Consumer Case, Leading To The Business Case. Yet, Kresse pointed out that, ultimately, individual consumer behavior drives changes in business behavior.

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Meeting Consumer Demand With Speed-Of-Life Payments

PYMNTS

The digital economy is here and, for many consumers, it has become a way of life. The persistence of legacy infrastructure can often throw sand into the wheels of digital payments progress at the very same time that consumers demand innovation — and options that are faster, cheaper and evermore secure. Supply and Demand.

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How Treasurers Are Guiding Firms Through The eCommerce Revolution

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The eCommerce landscape is shifting on multiple fronts, with sellers embracing digital channels and adjusting their business models to a new reality of customer demands. Getting Closer To The Consumer. This creates new challenges and paradigms for payment flows. The result, in some industries, has been a fragmented shopping experience.

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The Digital Payments Preferences That Cross The Generational Divide

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Cash will always have a place among consumers — but its use is dwindling. Only 26 percent of all consumer payments are made in the U.S. with cash — and consumers are even starting to ditch plastic cards. He noted that ordering grocery items online and having them delivered is a practice quickly gaining traction.

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What Is An Online Merchant and eCommerce

Payment Savvy

Types of eCommerce Models There are four main types of eCommerce models: Business-to-Consumer (B2C) The B2C eCommerce model involves transactions between businesses and individual consumers. Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) C2C eCommerce facilitates transactions between individual consumers.

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Fiserv On Why 2020 Is ‘The Year Of P2P’

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In an interview with PYMNTS, Matt Wilcox, senior vice president of payments innovation at Fiserv , said recent data points show that an increasing number of financial institutions (FIs) are determined to satisfy a real demand for real-time transactions. Building Trust .

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